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Ichneumon Wasp.(Poem)

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| March 01, 2004 | Dunn, Antony | COPYRIGHT 2004 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

 
ICHNEUMON WASP 
 
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would 
have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention 
of their feeding within the living body of caterpillars. 
 
--Charles Darwin, letter to Asa Gray, 1860 
 
   How to explain this; the wasp under glass 
   in its alcohol reliquary. 
 
   under its devil's chaplain's red and black 
   its stun-gun stinger, ...

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